Shooting game depicting President Barack Obama raises firestorm

ROSETO | The last year Kathryn Chapman lived in the
borough, it was 1963 and she was a third-grader at Our Lady
of Mount Carmel School.

That was the year President John F. Kennedy was shot to
death, and she remembered teachers sent her home with
instructions to pray.

Chapman returned to the borough two weeks ago for her
annual family reunion and to visit the Our Lady of Mount
Carmel Big Time celebration.

She said she was shocked when she arrived at the school to
see a president being shot again.

"When someone says there's a game where you can
shoot the president, I kind of believed it and I kind of
didn't," said Chapman, who now lives in Medford,
Mass. "Then when I saw it, I was totally floored, just
appalled.

"I just can't believe how far things have come
that now on church property you can shoot the president and
get a prize if you hit him in the head or heart."

A game called Alien Attack at the Big Time celebration
encouraged players to shoot at an image of a suited black
man holding a health care bill and wearing a belt buckle
with a presidential seal.

Irvin L. Good Jr., the president of Goodtime Amusements, of
Hellertown, said the game wasn't meant to depict
President Barack Obama. But he acknowledged he's
received two complaints since the game debuted in April,
including one complaint at the Big Time.

"Yes, a woman talked to me about it," Good said
Tuesday. "She said she was offended by it. I said if
you are, you might want to be. But you're interpreting
it as being Obama.

"We're not interpreting it as Obama. The name of the game is Alien Leader. If you're offended, that's fine, we duly note that."...